The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-05-12
VICTIMS OF THEIR FEARS.
Over. Treatment EnrIChlnO Doctors and
Filling Tennis.
Good Health UnRAShiOAAble---An OPP
GRAFTON to Remove TumOr that
WINS mot Thore, but Patient
Dies all the Same.
CsDsolAl OorrssDOndonos Of plttDOurg Post,

NEW YORK, May 6.-"TO comprehend
the outrage us stupidity Of the presen
race of women, one must be intimate
with few fashionable Dhyslcians. Al
far as can learn, the most indelicRtt
conduct Of which lady can be guilty Ii
to be healthy. To be under treatment
is the correct thing" said spirited
woman. Plenty Of 1t usually results In
an operation, and an operation result
In death more frequently than the
world is allowed to know. Our grand
mothers and their daughters didn't do
surgical appliances to use that were In.
vented fifty years ago. How did those
healthy. hearty old ladies scrub on with
ont 'em? That's what I'd like to know.
And obi how The disastrous results OF
all this unnatural and unoalled for
treatment is multiplying. can call to
mind fifteen dead friends who have been
taken out Of the world the last FIVE years
by their devotion to the doctors. They go
TO one Of these specialists with SeVere
pain In the top Of their heads. A couple
Of seasons, perhaps, she runs bi weekly
to her physician. Then she takes
to her bed and the specialist goes to her.
II she ever leaves II o we'll woman she is
an exceptional case. Time out OF mind
l have seen this program carried unde
viatingly out, and the minute Maria be-
gins to tell me she Is under treatment
b gin to speculate whether there will be-
q ,imple service at the house or more
pretentlOUs ceremony at the ChuFCh."
The speaker was incompetent to tat ge
of surgery, no doubt. She was a we'll
known actress In the line OF bnTlef q0e,
and she had been for years been an in-
innate friend Of Eliza WestheTsby, the
famOul burlesquer and beauty, who,
death lately left Nat G. Goodwin VIZ
over. The demise Of Mrs. Goodwin has
made q great deal Of gossip and the ac
count here quoted from the lips Of the
sctl ess mentioned is at least interesting,
though pIejudiced against the doctors.
ELIZA began course of treatment"
she said, "a few years ago for an iDsig
niticant ailment. This treatment seemed
80 unnatural and unreasonable that /
urged her to abandon doctors, and sec II
time and little care would not restore
her. OF course that advice was not ia
ken, and with one physician after an
other she went from better to wOE' 9.
At one time her figure changed
80 that she was unable to wear
her dresses, and then she was told
she had tumor and was undergoing
any amount Of treatment to get rid OF
1t by absorption. By degrees she re-
gained h9r normal proportions, and got
round again, but a weak wreck Of her
former sef. A year went IN and she
was again pr0strated by the returG of
the trouble. What the poor woman
suffered no woman can tell. Finally.
after many consultations of the best
specialists, an operation was decided
lpon; and the day In which the rest OF
The butchsring was conducted inspires
ne to say that If the whole mateTia
medica assured me that / had tumrr,
4 6brous cancer and pair Of twins,
would let nature take its course rather
than accept surgical assistance.
The poor woman was worn down to
D shadow; her system was so enfeebled
that any shock would have been fatal;
but the cheerful surgeon sat down and
described the operation, drew her
CHASTITY diagram Of her condition, dwelt
luite f9elingly on the hazardous nature
II the enterprise, and left her to suffer
,Ortures OF mind and body between his
Vlslt and his fatal return. Another tOc-
ior In the case undertook to brace her
~, and assured her the impsndiL g
operation was comparatively insiSD3fic|
,snt. He speedily found that she had
)et n r. formed of the most harrassing de-
ails, and was already half killed by an
The fatal morning came;
md, more dead than alive, the poor
VOman was etherized, and astute sur.
icons commanded the operation to
emoVe the dreadful tumor, whose
,rOwth they had described like phOt3
,raphic camera. There was no tum0r.
there were enlRrgements Of organs that
night have resumed their pristine pro
IOrti0n5 under rest, and the kindly
VOrk Of nature. There was nothing TO
Indicate the horrible alteration they
lad given her-that, refusing this Oper-
tion, she would have died terrible |
cath In three weeks by the bursting OF
his dreadful unnatural growth. Poor
VOman; she never rallied; III der the
knife she virtually died,
hough she continued to breath for IL |
I0uTs thereafter. There was no effoi |
o gloss over the proceedings. When
he surgeon found there was no tumor,
nd the whole case was wrongly dia-
,onised, he packed up his kit Of tools
nd sent In his bill to the husband for |
Iis mornings work-$500 Goodwin
wears be won't pay 1t, and 1t will go
ntO the Courts. | hope 1t may and l be
allied as q witness, for there Is one fea
ure Of this wretched piece of business
VOuld love tO state to q world Of foolish
women who are rushing to doctors for
reatment."
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